Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.